Sponsored by The Alliance for the Promotion of Research on the Matter of Britain, The Reel Wizards Project is dedicated to promoting research on the representations of magic-wielding figures (i.e. wizards, witches, warlocks, etc) on screen from lantern shows to film, television, and video to electronic and computer games to the most recent portable electronic devices.

Friday, July 28, 2017

Krugaar Gets Reel in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

The Marvel Comics character Krugaar, the successor of Stephen Strange as Sorcerer Supreme of Earth-691 (the setting for the adventures of the original future-based Guardians of the Galaxy), made his film debut recently in a mid-credits sequence of the feature film Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. Details on his activities can be found at Marvel Cinematic Universe Wiki at http://marvelcinematicuniverse.wikia.com/wiki/Krugarr. Concept art for the character appears in Jacob Johnston's The Art of Marvel Studios Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (Marvel Worldwide, 2017); check out pages 164-167.

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The Reel Wizards project, an outreach effort of The Alliance for the Promotion of Research on the Matter of Britain, was launched in June 2010 by Michael A. Torregrossa, MA, though its genesis was in the early 2000s. If you are interested in helping with the promotion of our work, please e-mail Torregrossa as the above address.

Our founder, Michael A. Torregrossa is a graduate of the Medieval Studies program at the University of Connecticut (Storrs) and has presented papers on filmic wizards at regional, national, and international conferences. His published work includes “Merlin Goes to the Movies: The Changing Role of Merlin in Cinema Arthuriana” in Medieval Period in Film, Part 2, ed. Martha Driver, spec. issue of Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies 29.3-4 (1999); “Merlin at the Multiplex: A Filmography of Merlin in Arthurian Film, Television and Videocassette 1920-1998,” in 1999 Film & History CD-ROM Annual, eds. Peter C. Rollins, John E. O’Connor, and Deborah A. Carmichael (Cleveland, OK: Film & History, 1999); “The Way of the Wizard: Reflections of Merlin on Film,” in The Medieval Hero on Screen: Representations from Beowulf to Buffy, eds. Martha W. Driver and Sid Ray (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2004); and entries on "Television" for both “Arthurian Literature, Art, and Film, 1995-1999,” eds. Norris J. Lacy and Raymond H. Thompson, in "Arthurian Literature 18 (2001) and "The Arthurian Legend in Literature, Popular Culture, and the Performing Arts, 1999-2004,” eds. Raymond H. Thompson and Norris J. Lacy, in Arthurian Literature.